A Brief Biography of Aristotle

Lauren Clairmont
“All men by nature desire knowledge,”
(brainyquote.com).
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a
reproach to old age,”
(brainyquote.com).

Plato’s Academy
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the
mind,”
(brainyquote.com).

Aristotle tutoring Alexander the Great.

 “Those that know, do.
Those that understand, teach,”
(brainyquote.com).

The ruins of Aristotle’s Lyceum.

 “The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the living from
the dead,”
(brainyquotes.com).

Aristotle bust.
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical
than history; for poetry expresses the
universal, and history only the
particular,”
(brainyquotes.com).
 “Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies
if thou doest every act in life as though
it were thy last,”
(brainyquotes.com).

Plato and Aristotle.

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